Kudakwashe Donald Samunderu (born 12 July 1987) is a Zimbabwean

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er. He played 16 top-level matches in Zimbabwe between the 2004–05 season and 2017–18 as a batting all-rounder.Donald Samunderu

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. Retrieved 2024-09-28. Born at Harare in 1987, Samunderu made his first-class and

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at the beginning of the 2004–05 Zimbabwean season.Kuda Samunderu
CricketArchive. Retrieved 2024-09-28. In early 2005 he played two first-class and one List A match for the Zimbabwe A cricket team against Bangladesh A cricket team on their tour of Zimbabwe, having impressed as an opening batsman in a trial match against a Zimbabwe Board XI earlier in the season aged only 17. The following season he played for the national under-19 side, first in the Afro-Asia under-19 cup competition, before playing in the

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in Sri Lanka.Champions Pakistan tumble to Sri Lanka

, 20 November 2005. Retrieved 2024-09-29.Under-19 cricket victory for Zim
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'', 8 February 2006. Retrieved 2024-09-28.Pakistan U-19s too efficient for Zimbabwe

, 11 February 2006. Retrieved 2024-09-28. Despite a number of impressive batting performances for the under-19 side, Samunderu did not play senior domestic cricket again until the 2017–18 season. He played club cricket in England, for Durbanville in South Africa, and for Bangor Cricket Club in Ireland, before reappearing in top-level cricket for Harare Metropolitan Eagles, playing five List A matches and a single Logan Cup match for the side in April and May 2018.Kuda Returns to Upritchard Park
Bangor Cricket Club, 2022. Retrieved 2024-06-28. Samunderu studied at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, graduating with a masters degree in Sport for Development. He established a nob-profit organisation to manage and evaluate the development of sports coaching programmes in the Western Cape and has coached the university's cricket team.Kuda Samunderu Joins Milnerton Cricket Club
Club Cricket SA, 1 December 2022. Retrieved 2024-09-28.

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